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The Universal turing machine : a half-century survey by Rolf Herken is a computer science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Universal turing machine : a half-century survey about?
This volume commemorates the work of Alan Turing, who not only introduced the most influential concept of a machine model of effective computability, but who also anticipated in his work the diversity of topics brought together here. Among his major contributions, Turing's "On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," first published in 1937, is acknowledged as a landmark of the computer age. Part I of this volume explores historical aspects with essays on background,
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- Author
- Rolf Herken
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198537410
- Category
- computer science
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Computer Science, Computers
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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